ABSTRACT
The legal regime for the civil service is traditionally considered a national domain shaped by national legacies. Nevertheless, transformational impulses of hard and soft law of international organisations and the European Union can be observed. This contribution analyses the effects with regard to the composition of the staff of national civil services, its attitudes, demands on its skills, and guidelines of its daily working routines. Inter alia, it points out that supranational law leads to a more heterogeneous staff and a convergence of the employment conditions of civil servants and employees in the private sector. In addition, international and Union law work towards a more responsive and more specialised administration, whose employees have international expertise. Denying neither national peculiarities nor varying degrees of adjustments in the European countries, a cautious convergence of the national civil services is to be noted. This applies not least to the introduction of a uniform set of values.
